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Well, I gave my flock to a guy who lives a few miles from me, he's got a pond and with a growing kid needs the eggs more than I do. So, since my flock had the run of the 5 acres here, here's how we did it: I set up an enclosure with t-posts and wire fencing, and fed the geese their corn in...

14 American Buff geese, good layers, considered the gentlest breed, although they hiss a fair amount I've never been bitten (although if you're not a decent "goose whisperer", any geese even the most gentle could become a problem) the flock is about 50/50 geese and ganders I think, I prefer to...

I found a "rogue" nest yesterday, and today decided to check it out when the goose was gone .... nope no luck that goose was brooding. So, I got a (plastic) trash can lid and used it kind of like a shield, this is the funny part: I found that if the goose couldn't see me, I could crouch really...

I was walking back to the back of the place here to my trailer and noticed (I was wearing a headband-mounted headlamp) an orange reflection the same orange as a bicycle or car turn signal reflector, but where I didn't remember there being one. So I got in a bit closer and noticed it was some...

I just wanna say: I LOVE that cartoon! It's ended now, no new ones, I'd LOVE to have the whole series on DVD someday. I thought it was really lame when Mike Judge shifted gears from Beavis & Butt-Head to King Of The Hill, but B&BH would never be accepted by the mainstream. (I'd love to have...

I got me a new ride today. An Electra 7D cruiser with this huge Wald basket on the front. The guys at the shop put the basket on since I was buying it with the bike, and I'm glad, since they had to tussle with it for a while. Compared to my single speed, coaster-brake cruiser, this thing's a...

I have my bucket nest boxes set up so it's easy to remove them, if any need cleaning etc. Well, I had a hen get broody, and very protective of eggs, I suspect her own plus another 1-2 hens would lay in that box then she'd do the broody thing. I collect eggs daily, and get a half-dozen a day, and...

So this morning I open the door to toss my coffee filter out (where it dries, and the grounds become part of the soil and the dry paper goes in the trash) and see .... a peacock! So, I go back in like it's an everyday occurrence, get some corn for the chickens and make clucking sounds at the...

I learned recently of this good thing called a "poultry hook", and decided I wanted one. There's a place online selling them CHEAP and look to be really good ones, like hand down to your kids good. But, I wanted one that cost me $0, and I wanted it a bit shorter than the 4ft the commercial ones...

In my case I don't HAVE a car, but I borrow the land owner's car quite a bit. Now that the weather's nice, I borrow it more than I need to, really. I have an old beach cruiser with a coaster brake I can get around on, but I want something better. So, I've decided on .... the Felt Cafe 3...

So, I got chickens by having 15 of 'em essentially dumped on me, and they're a motley bunch. I already mentioned getting rid of the "spur hen" who was making everyone's life hell. There's another one, a hen, who's very beautiful, white with a black edge on every feather. She seems to relate to...

Well, I've mentioned I have one oddball hen who has a spur on one leg that would do a rooster proud. Well, I'd been getting about half a dozen eggs a day, and the ol' spur hen had been doing her thing, complaining a lot, and just being well, a butt, but only today I realized the real problem...

Also sometimes called black alfalfa .... it's not black, but it makes a single, black, seed. It's in the alfalfa family I guess, has the 3-leaf pattern. It doesn't get nearly as big though. It's a ground-hugging, spread-out plant. Well, we had a healthy growth of it on the side of the...

The day of the workers' liberation! Ahem. May Day. It's a Sunday, so I'll like as not bike or bus on down. It's something like 8 or 9 AM to I dunno, early afternoon, all kinds of coop designs, show off birds, talk, probably swap, etc. I'm just putting on here what I remember from the sign on the...

Wow this rain is something. I have a ghetto-fabulous corrugated tin roof put on my trailer and a couple of windows that are taped-on plastic (which I remove for summer to let the wind through) and the rain is really drumming away. What a great sound! I put a roof made of the same stuff on my...

I notice TSC has egg cartons for .30 each, are those pretty good? I'm getting to the point where I might sell a few dozen a week, which is a good price for organic eggs in my area.

I've not made any myself yet, but these things are GOOD! The Wikipedia entry on "tea eggs" looks like the best go-to source on them, with recipes. I think I'm going to go to costco on my next trip into town next week, and pick up some shoyu (soy sauce) bulk black tea, and hopefully they have...

I think it's great! About 6 of them, I was walking back toward the back of the place with a bunch of greens for my gals, and saw them sauntering down the path, they got a little nervous seeing me so I stopped and made what I hope were some friendly sounds. I don't know of any problems they...

Many of us here have been learning and using the acronym SSS. Many of us are rural, and while we didn't have chickens or pets smaller than a pony, predators etc were not a problem. Then we got chickens. Then we started learning that a gun is a handy tool to have around. First let me say that...

I've found I can get diatomaceous earth around here but it's pool grade for swimming pool filters. According to one page I found, it won't kill bugs because it's been heat-treated (calcined) to form larger clumps, so it's not small enough to kill the bugs. Anyone using it? If it's not the...